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I agree. I had a Standard Horizon digital panel gage depth sounder on my
last boat. Quit working after about 3 months and nothing we could do
(replaced the display twice and the transducer once) would make it work.
POS. I got an Apelco (now Raymarine) simple fishfinder and worked like a
charm forever. Matter of fact, I put the same unit on my new boat... same
results.
If you wanted a portable one, get one of those handheld depth sounders that
you can lower over by cable and read the depth.
Keith
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Subject: Re: lv-ab: Depth Finders
> In a message dated 9/30/2003 4:09:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> > >8) Boat has no electronics either. I have a handheld gps, but will be
> > >needing radio at a minimum. Ideas? Boat has a thru-hull transducer.
> > >Recommendations on depth/speed sets?
> > >
> >
>
> Depth Finder
>
> I like the fish finder type over the simply dial or number display. They
> have a LCD screen that looks like a chart recorder. I turn off the fish
part,
> but by seeing the bottom "going by" under the boat you can more easily
spot the
> trend toward deeper or more shallow water and get a jump on how scared you
> should be. Look for one that has a "white line" feature which will show
how soft
> the bottom is and is helpful for knowing how much mud plowing you can get
> away with. It can also be helpful for anchoring to know the firmness of
the
> bottom. Mine doesn't have an adjustable backlight, that would be nice at
night.
>
> I have used the same transducer through several control heads. The most
> common seem to be the high freq, 200 KHz I think. There are those who
might say
> the wires or control head has to be tuned to match the transducer, and
that
> might be true for maximum performance (read depth), but my depth finder is
used
> entirely to avoid grounding so only shallow water performance is of
concern to
> me.
>
> It would be nice to have adjustable offset, to make the unit read true
depth
> or depth under the keel, but I don't have that and rapidly got used to
knowing
> what number means I am about to go aground.
>
>
> Norm
> S/V Bandersnatch
> Lying NYC
>
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